Steve Poulson

Laird of Glenmore : Views are not necessarily my own.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Three charged with the stabbing murder of Christopher Bradbury, 44, in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent.

Hassan Ahmed, 19
Dhannish Mahmood, 19
Subhan Nadeem, 20

A British man is dead. Three young men are charged with his murder.
And yet this will barely register on the national news.

If the victim and the perpetrators had been reversed, this would have been wall-to-wall coverage for a week. Politicians would be lining up. Every newspaper would be running it on the front page.

The outrage would be endless.

Instead it’s a quiet local story that most people will never hear.

Christopher Bradbury was loved by his family.

His life mattered.

The selective silence says everything about whose lives the media decides are worth mourning.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We now have a Two Tier Media!!

[W @_common_W_]

Argentina are the only team out of all 48 participants not to have a single VAR intervention against them, despite committing the most fouls in the tournament. Do you even realize how insane that is?

[Essex Patriot @Essex_Patriot]

Ed Miliband has just pledged £11.6 BILLION in overseas climate aid.

Yes, £11.6 BILLION.

While millions of British families are struggling with soaring energy bills, waiting weeks for a GP appointment, unable to find an NHS dentist and watching public services decline, Labour's Energy Secretary is promising to send billions abroad in the name of "global climate leadership."

As if that wasn't enough, he's also announced another £79 million for clean energy projects in Africa and small island states.

Meanwhile, back in Britain, Net Zero targets keep slipping, major energy projects are delayed, our grid is under increasing pressure and households are still footing the bill.

[Liz Kershaw @LizKershawDJ]

I was in Jersey last week. Their east coast is only 14 miles from France. 7 fewer than Calais to Dover.
And yet...I wondered...why don't they get dinghies full of young men coming across?
Because they intercept them, pick em up, lock em up, and return them to France...a safe country.
With the full backing of UK Border Force.
So why don't we do that?

[Abdullah Omar🇵🇸 @Abdullah_Om3r03]

Portugal compiled a four-minute video highlighting every foul committed against the Egyptian team, showing repeated incidents of physical aggression while the referee failed to intervene. According to the post, Argentina continued playing without being held accountable, while the referee was accused of showing leniency and favoritism toward them.

The video was shared with the caption:

"A global scandal and an unprecedented disgrace."

According to the claim, the video reached 30 million views and 35,000 shares within just three hours.

[Dr/Ranouch🇪🇬 @Rosanoury2]

كل ما ننزل الفيديو يتمسح هنفضل ننزله 🤣👌

[Preeti @MadridPreeti]

🚨 External Analysis Report Egypt vs Argentina match featured 23 refereeing errors. The most ever recorded in a single FIFA World Cup game.

Every single one of them benefited Argentina over Egypt.

[SilencedSirs◼️ @SilentlySirs]

The most despicable figure football has ever produced.

[د. أحمد عطوان DR.AHMED ATWAN @ahmedatwan66]

في البرتغال ..
قاموا بتجميع فيديو مدته 4 دقائق يعرض أبرز الفاولات والعنف والايذاء البدني الذي مارسه لاعبي الأرجنتين ضد مصر وكيف تهاون معهم وانحاز لهم الحكم
واكتفوا بالتعليق بعبارة :
"فضيحة عالمية وقذارة غير مسبوقة"🤢
الفيديو حصد 30 مليون مشاهدة و35 الف مشاركة خلال 3 ساعات 👇

[shenawy @shno74]

عاااااااجل : أسطورة الكرة الإنجليزية آلان شيرار:

عندما يعود الحكم للـ VAR في هدف مصر ويُلغيه بسبب إعاقة في بداية اللعبة، ولا يعود للـ VAR في هدف فوز الأرجنتين رغم وجود إعاقتين في بداية اللعبة.. إذًا فنحن نشاهد "مسرحية" وليست مباراة كرة قدم.
إذا كان الفيفا يرغب في إهداء كأس العالم لميسي فليعطيه اللقب من الآن ويذهب لاعبو باقي المنتخبات إلى منازلهم 👏👏👏👏👏

[Rachel @RachelD1892]

An engineered by election to accommodate him.
No process to elect him party leader.
No questions allowed from journalists.
No parliamentary scrutiny until September.
Something is very,very wrong about the installation of Burnham as our PM.

[Chris Parry @DrChrisParry]

Anyone else feel that it is not right or proper that the man seeking the most important executive job in the country should be allowed to take over without an interview or serious examination of his suitability, temperament and credentials?

[Kosher @koshercockney]

So it turns out the Met Police will be reopening 4,000 rape gang cases in London alone.

But never forget that THIS was how the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan responded when Susan Hall pressed him on whether or not the Rape Gangs existed in London.

It still makes me sick watching this but knowing now that it has turned out there were at least 4,000 cases that needed to be reinvestigated and he completely dismissed questioning on it, is absolutely unforgivable.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

From today, begging and rough sleeping isn't a crime as Labour repeals the 1824 Vagrancy Act.

This ends two centuries of legislation - which is great news for the fake homeless fraudsters, migrant invaders and Roma gypsy scumbags. 🇬🇧

[Amelia @makeukgood]

Tell you what, Labour: Instead of flooding working-class neighbourhoods with illegal migrants, almost entirely fighting age young men, with virtually no women or children, why don’t you house them in Labour-voting areas, wealthy suburbs, or the neighbourhoods of the celebrities and millionaires who loudly support open borders? Put them where the people who actually cheer for this policy live. Let’s see how long it takes before the complaints begin.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

ROBIN COOK QUIT OVER A WAR DIED ON A SCOTTISH HILL AND THE CASE CLOSED BEFORE TEA TIME

Robin Cook spent his career being right at the worst possible time for his career.

In March 2003 he resigned as Leader of the Commons rather than back the Iraq War. His resignation speech got a standing ovation from MPs on all sides, something that had never happened in the chamber before.

He spent the next two years telling anyone who would listen that Tony Blair had marched Britain into a war built on nothing.

Two years later he was dead.

6 August 2005. Ben Stack, a remote mountain in Sutherland. Cook collapsed of a heart attack while hillwalking with his wife Gaynor, fell down a ridge, and was airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, where he was pronounced dead within the hour.

The post mortem two days later gave the cause as hypertensive heart disease. Police on the scene treated it as a medical matter and that was the end of their involvement.

No inquest reopening. No criminal inquiry. Just a senior politician who had publicly humiliated the government over an illegal war, dropping dead in one of the most remote spots in the country, with the official file shut almost as fast as it was opened.

Norman Baker, the Lib Dem MP and later Home Office minister who spent years digging into the death of weapons inspector David Kelly, said in 2007 that Cook had been on Ministry of Defence linked land when he died and that he had real doubts about the official account.

He got called a conspiracy theorist for asking the question. Funny how that label only gets handed out to the people asking questions, never to the people refusing to answer them.

Then there is the bit nobody mentions enough. Starting in 2020, someone filed Freedom of Information requests with Police Scotland asking for the basic details of that day.

What time officers were alerted. Whether witnesses were interviewed. Whether the people who came to help Gaynor Cook were ever identified. Police Scotland refused. The case went to the Scottish Information Commissioner, who in 2021 and again in 2022 sided with the police and let them keep it sealed under a legal exemption.

So twenty years on, the basic facts of how a former Foreign Secretary actually died on a hillside are still officially none of your business.

That is not evidence of a murder BUT it is evidence of an institution that would rather you stop asking than ever have to answer.

Britain does not need conspiracy theories when the real story is this embarrassing on its own.

SOURCES
@HeraldScotland - Norman Baker doubts over Robin Cook's death
@FOIScotland - Decision 074/2021 and Decision 011/2022, Police Scotland FOI refusals on Robin Cook case file
@policescotland - original statement treating death as a medical matter
@BBC - Robin Cook resignation speech

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Trees. Trees. Trees. They matter. Plant them. Protect them.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

When are we going to have had enough of being second class citizens in our own country?